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V r r 1 « j / ^ - / -1 -H • / .4- / The Clinton Chronicle^ Clinton, S. C„ Thursday, February 15,1934 On the Funny Side Call a Plumber atj Boy—Say. dad. how many kinds of milk are theire? Father—Well, there’s evapf)rate<J milk, buttermilk, malted milk and— but why d(i you wish to know? *H)h. I’m drawing a picture of a cow and I want to know how many aptrots to put on her."—Farm Jour- naL Woraaa and Batcball klra. tlreen (at Nill game, as pitcher and catch^r hold a confei^ ence)—What are they talking al>out? Husband—About what to throw to the next batter. Mrs. (Ireen-Hut they aren’t al lowed to throw anything except tho ball, are they? Political Unrest “no you believe that ixditics niakea strange bed fellows?" **Ves,’’ answered .Senat»>r Sorghum. "But the. fact brings no repose. Trouble Is always catjsed by the man who wants to grub all the covers and kick the fellow out.’* AND SOME LAWYERS ’i( takes tw'o to make a quarreL” "Yes, and very often It takes a Jury *o settle It.’* Somctimas Not En^^k Irate <’aller—You spoiled my artl- < le by a mls|»rlnt. - Editor-I’m very sorry. Wliat did we get wrong? ('all«;r—A proverb I employed. You printed It "A word to the wife la sufllclent."—Boston Transcript. Beginning Friend—Mow Is yotir son getting along in bis njedical studies? Proud .Motbej- Fine; he can al ready <'ure very stnall children.— Border O’ltles .star. New Reducer History Lecturer—('an anyone tell me wbut makes the Tower of Pisa lean? >. Stout 1 July —I don’t know or Pd take some myself.—Capper’s Weekly. Needs Stilts Family Friend Ih»es your dog bowl at the moon? Little Doris—Yes, he can’t over It. little get If ^ Budding Financier I’rude—I’ll give you a i>enny you’ll stop crying. Small Nephew—Y’ es. hut I—I*wa cried a nickel’s worth already. change In the pockets.’ News Review of Current Events the World Over (T . Devaluation of Dollar Brings Flood of Gold to America— > NRA and Steel Industry^—Planning for This Week h Arthur Brisbane More Foreign Loans. Bv EDWARD W. PICKARD AN EXPERT During the holiday traffic rush, two apeed cops, noticing a young woman who was driving dangerously, shot ahead of her and drew up theU car broadside, go that the culprit had to atop. •’Excuse me. young lady.’ said onr of the officers, sarcastically, "do you know anything ab«»ut driving a car?" "Of <^>urse.’* said the bright young thing, "what’s your trouble?” Prof. Warren pkEVAT.rATTONof thedollar. andthe ^ purchaseofgoidat a fine ounce caused a turmoil In the world’s money ouirkeis and an immeillate result was a great’flow of gold bul lion from Kurojkc to the United States. The pound' sterling and tile franc made gains, but not* big enough to suit Presi dent Bu<tseveit and hhi monetary advis ers. Later both the pound and franc de clined again, and the confusi*»n was nmd« greater. The French Were alarmed the drain'on their gold and expre.ssed lnten.se resentment .agujn.st the -\merican imlicy, charging tiiai the administration was making de liberate efforts to embarra.ss France. For the time being the administra tion was prevented from driving the dollar down to Its pmjected {wirity liolnts In rbrelgh exebangey by the ris ing tide o^ American dollars flowing back to this country. , But ni«»st of Its financial exi»ert8 were confident that the .MnuC cents value would be made to prevail after a rejisoiiable time to allow for the sha'k«‘down. As for the $,'{5 an ounce -for gold. It la the opinion of Prof. (;e«»rge F. War ren. chief deviser of the experiment that la under way. that the figure must Ik* rai.sed If prices of cummmll- tios are to Ik* put up inuterially. Frank K.' Hannett, the Itoche.ster newspaper pubii.-ilier. after a visit to the White lioUM* and talking with txith the Pr*;.si«b*nt and Professor Warren, said in bi.s l:o4he.ster ’rinu*s-riilon that he ha<] tK-»-n convinc**d l».v those conver sations "that we shall (*ontfmie to r.ii'c the price of gold ’ and that the ligure probably woidd .sucre«*d only in preventing |tri«'*tts from sllje p.ng and c«nild hardly Ik* exiieeted to rais** them Umeb. By the President’s devaluation stroke a tn*a.Hury defleit of SI.fXMMUMNX) was transformeil overnlgiit Into a surplus of y’.tT.TTlfi,!*.'!”, The cut in gold con tent of the dollar pr«Mluced a dollar proht of as of Feb ruary I and a record cash balance of $4.-l.‘U.7L’l,l.'Vi.l8. pending deduction of Ute $l!.(MSt.titlO.(XM) stabilizatioB fund. The profit on the gold was paid Into the general fund of the treasury, and the new dollar value of the treasury gold supply was written Into the tHMika at $7.UlS,’J«:i,‘»ip.70. The sun>lu8 did led alter the official outlook for a deficit of approximately that amount at the clo.se «»f the current fi.scal year, .lime .'til, iu view of the extraordinary ex|>enditures of the President’s recov- erv program. ^JltA and the steel industry Came ■ -into sbarj* eoiiflii't, and the NIt.X Gen. Johnson » ^j:;si'nt id.*!!! of~empToy«Np re|»- tidn complies with the"Nll.\. Enou «l» to Jingle “Are you Interested In the new season’s variations In men’s sulta?*^ "N’o, but I hope there’ll be 8c»me a certain extent backed down. Ex ecutives of all the leading st**el com panies niet ami con- ^;«lered the clairn of tlje national labor iMwrd to authority g Veil by the Presi dent to 4'onduct el**c- ti<*iis ft»r employee jr»*|*r«-M*ntativ**s vvli**n a •‘sub'^tantiHl ’ „ninn- 1**^ n*4jm*si that ac- Ijoii. To this the si«-«*| men tiM»k exc«‘|>- taiii,. Tbi*y Issued a stateiiU'Ut saying''the industry Intends "to resist all attaeks" upon company unions and tbsit It Indds that the r*-s*<ntat The statein«*nt. however. de«-Iared the ste«-I“lndu.stry "is co oiK'ratIng xvhule- beartetlly with the Preslilent In his ef- 'f*‘rts lor national re<'overy and sub- K4t11k*s fully^lo the principle of collec tive bargaTtilifg prrtvldevl In section 7 ta) of the iiatinn.'il re«'overy act.** Tlie NBA had given out a press statement Implying that all coin|Kiny unions are domlnatml by employers. This drew sharp criticism., and th^ statement was retnicted. .Xdtninistra- tor Johnson and NK.V I'oiin.sel Ihui- ald Iticbberg npheld the right of tl>e board as^ staled tilnive They ss. s«Tt*sl. however, tliat the exiK-utive or der which said timt representatives «• *‘cfe«l liv a majority of workers "have hrvuv (4w»reby d«‘slgnaf«*d to n'pres«*nt all the employ IK'S." «ioe.s not aliridge tiie rights of labor niirt4vrtfb*s to cun- NR-X code. This re[*ort already has been made to the President but It has not l>een given to the public. The Borah rfS«dution al.so asked for a study of increases In gas^d dine prices. one representative voted ’no" when the house of repre sentatives pa.sse^l on the bill to ap propriate $!!.>».(•(for continuation of eWA and direct relief activities. The lone ni»ponent was Representative Ueorge^B* Terrill of Texas. r>emocraL The m«>ney is to l>e u.sed by the fed eral , emergency relief administration for keeping up the federal d<de to the ld|e for another year and for continu ing the Civil Works administration un til the early part of May. About .VK) millions Is to be used for the former purjiose. It was said, and about 450 for the CWA. Looks Like War She Shot, hat Forgets One Lady Hitch-Hiker $1,000,000 Well Spent General Hayashl. new Japanese war minister, says that If war comes It will be Russia’s fault Japan longs only for peace. You remember hear ing something like that In 1914. At the same time. Stalin, who doesn’t seem to know that It Is polite to say ”I love every body." was telling the (>)mniunlst party In Moscow: "We warn evervbodv not to poke their * * * aA 8nout» Into the Soviet potato patch. (He should have said "his snout") The Ru.ssian gathering roared ap proval. expressing fullest confidence and delight In anything Stalin might wish to do. ■fj^ITH little debate the senate » ^ pa.s-sed the hill introduced by Sen- country busy, ator Hiram Johnson Stalin added that Japan Is not the pply country with an ambition to* "wage war against the Soviet Union and share Its territory." JA»roe Euro pean nations have that Idea, accord ing to Stalin. He Is supposed to mean Germany, General Hayashl says It Is silly to talk about war bejtween the United States and Japan, and be Is right. Bc/isla. In her present state of rer- olutlnnary enthusiasm, would keep any Sen. Hiram Johnson of ralifornla which Is designed to prevent the float ing in America of pri vate loans to coun tries now defaulting on past debts. Before pas.sing It, the aenar tors amended the measure so that it would not hamper the Frealdeut's new scheme to grant to foreign nations loans with whiclr to buy American ''goodi. A pn»vi.sf» v»as written In de«“larlng that loans to foreign detaultera couid still be nia*le by government owneil c«*rtK»ra- tlons. .As it n«»vv stands, however, the bill l»uts In the hands <»f> tin* adniiiilstra- tion its iu<tst powerful wea{Min for forcing (Miyiuent of defaulted war debts. No defaulting n'atJon may float any private bian in this country, and any American aiding in the illegal flotation of a private loan to a de faulter would Im» liable to five years in Jail and $1U.000 in flnea. According to Chairman Jesse Jones of the RFC, the President's plar calls for the creation of a trad'og tank which will partially underwrite ex tension of credits to foreign purchas ers of American goods. The hank would be entirely owned by the govern ment, 80 the arrangement would act ually be a [tartial government guar antee of payment to the American producer. The bank would be a di vision of the RFC. The scheme Is devised mainly to promote trade with Ru.ssia ami It Is hoped the Soviet re public will take much of our surplus farm and Industrial pr^ductA “You leave my hnst,and alone !**-BJlF peals to many JurynM»n. Miss Inez I.Indsay. young, was In a car with Mrs. Ella Mae Mumford’a husband. Mrs. Mumford shot Inez. kIll(Kl her, admitted It. but told the Jury she really could . not remember anything about It The Jury said she was In- aane. and told her to go home. Primitive Justice. Indicating that the “sacred marriage tie" Is taken more seriously In some places than In others. The President fixes d«dlar value at fifty-nine and six hnmlredths cents. That Is the official value Kf each dol lar you earn and sfiend. Ju-st what “value" means remains to be demon- atrated. One New Y'ork banker ures out that with gold up and the dollar down, the "bank credit" of the United States could be expanded to about “three hundred thousand mil lion dollars." That seems a good deal of money. If It be real money, or la there any real money? The fact Is that we have something more than seven thousand million dollars la gold, after raising the “value” of gold from about twen ty to thirty-five dollars an ounce. How that much gold can be spread out to cover l.mOOO.000.000 would puizle a gold beater ILLIAM P. M’CRACKEN, who W. P, McCracken W " was as.sLstant secretary of com merce for aer«»nautlcs In the Hoover administration, ami three air line offl- cial.s got Into a Jam with the s**nate com- mittt'e that Is Investi gating air mail con tracts, .Xll four of them were clteil to ap- |K‘ar t>efTM*e-llM» senate to show cause why they should not be punished for c«*iitempL .XlH'racken prnrtb-«*s law In Washington. The others are I.. H. P.rlltln. vit-e pri»sident of Northw est Air- ways; Harris M. Ilamshue. president ^ of Western Atr^ Expre^ and Gilbert t Clvvln, Hanshiie’s secretary. Me- ' <'ra4*ken has been under technical ar rest but this was vacated. Uhairman Black’s report to the sen ate showed that Rrittiu admitted that ' he had removed from McCracken's of- fli-e and destroy^ Aubpoenac(L..<pri‘£-. 1 s{Mmdence; and also that Uixvln. on < order from Hanshue, had removed con- i fidentlal pai»eire‘glnce recovered by the committee. Senator Black also told the senate that (estlmony before the committee showed po.sT offi«*e contracts had been awarded "collnsively and fraudulent ly" ami that former Postm.*»<ter Gen- j er:il Brown and Mct'racken partici pated in a “seeret meeting" held In a "With a humble and thankful heart" President Roosevelt tells the nation listening on the radio that he accept! the large sum raised to help poor ehll- dreu suffering from Infantile paraly- ala. Ten million Americans danced, ate. listened patiently to speeches, and the result Is $1,000,000 to be spent fighting disease and diminishing suffer ing, besbles giving the President great pleasure. In connection with his flfty- aecond birthday. ' That Is better than shooting off fire works or having an expensive review of a great army, or elaboratCncfleet. Wa ahow common sense In some things. Miss Evelyn Clark, twenty-two. hltoli- hlker from I»s Angeb»A was taken Into his car by Mr. XV. H. Bybee, new ly escaped fr«>m the penitentiary. Miss Clark thought there must be some thing wrong about the 8awe<l-off auto matic sh»>tgun, rifle, automatic pistol and much ammunition that she no- tlce«l In the car. XVhen Bybee stopped for gas. Miss Clark dn»ve off with his car. told the p^dlce. They got Bybee, who says; "1*11 shtx>t the next hitch hiker 1 see.' Three courageous Russian acieutlstR Pavll Fedoselnko. Andrey Vasenko and Ilya Usyskin. whose names will be for gotten as soon aa they are read, out- alde of Russia, sacrificed their Uvea In exploration of the air. - They went up C7.MS feeL breaking all records aa high aa though they had piled sl*ty-sexen and-a half Eiffel tow ers, one on top pf the other, and rUn^bed up. It was the highest ascent on record, and also the longest fall, when the gas bag crashed, broke away from the gon- dol.n and returned to the douds riMuii adjacent to Brow*p’s Offit'e depart nH*nt oflu'c at which Ihe coun- tr.v was divideil into certain mail noites and contracts were di.stribute<I operating coro- du*-t ii«*goiiations w Jili emptnyv*rs. among “iiarttcular*’ It was Indicated un^ifilcially that • panics, this rt*fer«‘n< e lyvas made to prevent | XVlille It Is true that many billions are being spent, some, perhaps, not with the w:l|Klom of angeb*. at least all the money Is staying In the I'nlted States, spent In stores, fee<Ung fam ilies. relieving distress and depression. It isn’t being sent to, Europe. either s'ele from * laiming an eb^-tion unn*pn*senlatlve lKM*ause Its adherents stayeil away from the fKdls. The NR.X statement s;il«l tliat while sele«'tlt*n of maj«*rity repres4*utatl\es d«K's m»t re strict legal' rights of smaller groups to dvaJ separately^with employet*s, "as a practical prop»»?itIon." neitlier the empl*»yer nor Ute labor board coirid be exiK*cted to deal with “an ln‘b*fi- nite nuiulier of emph*y**e reprt*senta- tixes expressing every pii.s.sible variety of opinion." . , . The chairman declared that Brown was a "b*‘avy st**ckholder" in the py N«'body knows anything about mon- It Is all cue^^^'fh. -And that CENATOR BDR.XI! of Idaho, carry- Ing on his attack on abrogation of the anti-trust laws,_by the .NR.X. won lotion calling for a report from the federal trade commission on price flx- ^ km by-thw-Ktooi nnder tbe Court of the United Static* held that all iiers*»n8 accsisgil of violating the late national prohibition laws and whose cases had not been finally ad judicated by December ,*» last, wheil tl^e ..Eigliteenth amendment w'as re pealed should be set fr^ The opink*n held tliat repeal ciuiceled the power of prosecution. off the gold and try to seetm" proud of that What the facta are no one knows. tlce, there we^"~^,5t8’'1i>^ caseaT" with about 13.0U0 defendanta, pending in federal courts. Important gold strikes In the Kal- ^oficlle region of west .Xustralla have brought thousands of foreigners. Aus tralia’s motto Is "Australia for Aus* traUans." Foreigners are not Uked or nnd sev^l Vere killed, many bomed In ribta. Kln« Srwateatw w:wj r—■— ‘ Immortal Figures in the Field of Science rennsyhania railroad and other com- applies to the learned. si> called flnan- liianies Interested in aviation, and clers. XX'hen you've got enough gold charged that the practice' of distrib- get along ami transact business, uting contra* ts “In secret" was a viola- you’re on'a g«dd basis and very proud tion of the law. of It. XX’hen your gold Is Inadequate, i I .your need of money grows t^ fasL or , I N A unanimons opinion the Supreme Vour depression Is too deefi. yon get - ' - - Who are the world’s greatest sclen tlsts? Nineteen ibielda, containing nineteen names of outstanding sa vants, ornamented the balcony of the great hall of science at the Century of Progress exposition at Chicago last summer. Those selected and their fields are: Biolog.v, Aristotle; mathematics, .Archimedes; mathematics. Euclid; astronomy, HIpparchu.s; anatomy I^eonardo; physics, Galileo; atron omy. Huygens; pfiysiology, Harvey; mathematics, Newton; chemistry. I,avoisier; chemistry. Dalton; biol ogy, Darwin; medicine. Pasteur; physics. Faraday; physics, Helm holtz; physics. Maxwell; chemistry. Mendelejeff; physics, Rowland; physics. Hertz. In commenting on their selection. Prof. Henry Crew, head of North western university’s department of physics, said: "We do not list these names as the nineteen greatest scientists In history. But they are great names In science—names whose selection we can defend." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Preaeriptkm makes weak women strona. No aieohol. Sold by druggists in tablets or liquid.—^Adv. With Good Reaaoa Vox popull is the voice of the peo>- ple, and It aaya, “Ouch!" FIGURES DO NOT LIE Reid had learned to count In th« age-old fashion .of counting his fin gers. 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Almost Instant Relief throet is Mve. cnisb and dissolve J Bayer Aspirin Tablets in a haS glass of water and gargte ao* cording to directions in box. in this Way The simple method pictured above b the way doctors throughout the world now treat eolda. It b recognized aa the QUICK EST, safest, lurest way to treat a cold. For it will check an ordinary cold almost aa fast as yon caught it. Ask your doctor about this. And when you buy, see that yon get the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They dissolve almost instantly. And thus work almost instantly when you take them. And for • gargle. Genuine BAYER Aspirin Tablets dissolve so completely they leave no irritating par ticles. Get a box of 12 tablets or a bottle of 24 *or 100 at any drug store. OOFS NOT HAMM TH£ NEAtr sec- Mother Knows Little Boy—Mamma, what’s a end story man? Mother—Your father is one, dear. If his first story won’t do he always has a s(M;oDd.—Kansas City Star. 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